Rolling into a New Decade

Happy 10th Birthday Micah J.

The Frilled Shower

 Had a lot of fun with this cake! Had about 30min to decorate this one (that part's a secret.... shhhh!)

I had been wanting to try this design for awhile - but no orders and no time to practice (sounds like a re-occurring situation), Got an order for a cake for a shower and they let me pick the design - knew exactly what I wanted to do! Et voila!

This Fantasy Flower was so simple, but it totally makes the cake! I have been trying to get this color purple for some time now as I have a wedding cake coming up with this exact color. Was a little concerned about getting the right color tone, but matched the dress swatch with this and it matched perfectly - was so excited!

Had to share this picture as well - this was the inside of this cake! As it was for something a little more formal I wanted to add a little special twist to your normal chocolate cake! I cut the layers so that I had 11 different layers all filled with a cream cheese filling - super moist, and turned out okay!

Thankful for family and friends that will give their honest opinion of these cakes - it's so much easier to improve for the next time then!

Chocolate Filigree Bowl

Made some chocolate bowls the other day - this is just one of them! I've been doing a lot of work with chocolate recently and really enjoying it! 

Really having fun learning new techniques, shortcuts, etc! E.I. Tempering the chocolate, using the right tools, making sure it's the "perfect consistency" - Chocolate can be a very sticky thing to work with, but amazingly yummy results - Chocolate is Chocolate!

The French Macaron

You have no idea how excited I am to share this picture with you! I've tried making these French master pieces before, but with little success, likely was rushing too much (sigh!). However I gave it another shot - after doing some more research on them, watching a few more tutorials, and reading more books!
Et, voila! Regardez-les!
My great uncle - who has taken many French baking classes and is one of my role models in the baking department came to the party I made them for... and approved them - terribly excited!

If you look at them closely you can tell there are still a lot of things I need to work on - and yes I will be experimenting more with these in the flavor department - looking foward to it 

Sweet 16th

Super fun cake to work on!
The actual cake is filled with a reese peanut butter filling and covered in chocolate ganache then wrapped in fondant!

The outside was a lot of fun to work on - the zebra stripes are all freehand and this was my first fondant bow - have been wanting to work on a cake with a bow for awhile, but no orders came in and I haven't had much time for practicing as of late:)
My beautiful sister is almost 16 - can't believe she's growing up this fast! 

Mocha Season

A Mocha Almond Delight!

A huge slab cake with a decadent taste! 

 A mocha book cake - very similar to the previous one except...

The fondant roses - each on of the petals was rolled out by hand and placed strategically! 

I`ve been trying different mocha icing recipes and I have definitely found `the one` - Mrs. Heikoop has always made this one - not sure why I didn`t try it before! Very light, not too sweet, and the coffee flavor is bursting with a hint of chocolate - a perfect mocha blend!